#12 Are we humans... or are we flamingos?

Tadaa!

I learned this, from my last study:

I'm posting this first so that it'll appear as the thumbnail for people following me. Nobody's following me, but it's good to plan ahead. I like looking professional, haha. 

Anyway, first comes the planning talk...

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My Model Sheet.

 

I figured out the guy's anatomy under the cape. And to see how expressive his figure is, I tried to simplify him,  his name being Elodie, to the point where he's just two shapes. I think it looks pretty good.  I forgot that I wasn't going to use color, so there's no need to worry about this guy looking like Harry Potter. Now, I have to make the Ostrich's Model Sheet. The design of these two need to look connected somehow.

This was really quickly made, so it's not worthy of looking all professional. His glasses were originally supposed to fall off when he transformed, but this is better. His cane is the only thing that falls, which I think to be rather fitting for him.
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So that's all I wrote for the last step of planning. The next part is the animation talk.

This is going to sound crazy, but listen... I like it! My plan for just focusing on what I wanted to learn worked!

 I decided to make it super simple, so I could focus on just the transformation. The things I didn't like was how 2d it ended up looking (because it was just a boring side view), the choppiness of the flamingo, and the rough lines. The rough lines was a dumb mistake. I left the brush as a pencil tool thinking I was going to fill in the animation with color later, even though I said I wouldn't be doing that. The paint brush would have left a smoother line. But gladly, the rest was just extra stuff I didn't really want to pay attention on.

I'm just glad the transformation looks awesome! I would've liked to add more frames so everything could look smoother. But I think I did a good enough job to pat myself on the back. I understand now that, when morphing things, you just have to know where everything begins and where it's going to end up. If you know that, the inbetweening will be a piece of cake!
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*Cue: Human by The Killers*

And that, ladies and gentlemen, marks the end of the second season of this blog! Sadly,  this is the last study I will make for a while.

Anyway, next week I'm going to start planning for my first short film, which will be made exclusively in Photoshop (and probably edited together in Premiere, which I already have some knowledge on... So it's all good there...). It will be from thirty to sixty seconds long, and it will be amazing. I have no idea what it's going to be about, but just know that it will rock your socks off.

This post has gone on for far too long. If you've made it this far, thanks for reading. I will stop... now.